This comprehensive Handbook explores the interactions between the practice, policy, and theory of innovation. The goal is twofold: to increase insight into this dynamic process, searching for options to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of both policy and innovative practice, and to...

This comprehensive Handbook explores the interactions between the practice, policy, and theory of innovation. The goal is twofold: to increase insight into this dynamic process, searching for options to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of both policy and innovative practice, and to...

Motivated by concerns about the organizational and institutional conditions that foster research creativity in science, we focus on how creative research can be defined, operationalized, and empirically identified. A functional typology of research creativity is proposed encompassing...

Der vorliegende Beitrag skizziert die Entwicklungen von Evaluationsverfahren in der Forschungs- und Innovationspolitik. Nach einer kurzen Darstellung der Rahmenbedingungen staatlicher Forschungs- und Technologieförderung in Deutschland (Abschnitt 2) erfolgt eine Übersicht der wichtigsten...

This comprehensive Handbook explores the interactions between the practice, policy, and theory of innovation. The goal is twofold: to increase insight into this dynamic process, searching for options to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of both policy and innovative practice, and to...

Examining the ‘who’ (agents), ‘how’ (policy instruments) and ‘why’ (societal legitimacy) of the governance process, this book presents a conceptual framework about the governance of change in socio-technical systems. Bridging the gap between disciplinary...

This comprehensive Handbook explores the interactions between the practice, policy, and theory of innovation. The goal is twofold: to increase insight into this dynamic process, searching for options to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of both policy and innovative practice, and to...

In Germany the practice of the evaluation of research and of research institutions is characterised by a considerable degree of self-organisation of the scientific communities. A report is given of a recent comprehensive analysis of evaluation practice in S&T programmes: it critically analysed...